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So cute. Yep. At least she's got the "r". I have a cousin who just couldn't manage that. He used to get so excited when he saw a truck. He'd exclaim, loudly, "Big truck comin'! Big truck comin'" Well, he tried to say that - he just couldn't actually get "truck" out. lol!

I work with kids and one day as we were taking a walk one of the kids pointed at a truck and said look and instead of truck out came a word similar to your daughter's but without the r. I had only been paying half attention at that time but he had my full attention at that point. I asked him to repeat himself (without loosing my cool so he wouldn't) and sure enough that word came out, but luckily he was pointing at a truck (which was empty) so I corrected and we kept walking.

My son did NOT have the "r" at that age. We had a yard sale and my sister's boys sold some toy trucks, that he of course fell in love with while he was running around in the yard during the sale. Someone came to buy them and he started screaming "Truck! Truck! Truck!" in his "special" pronunciation. The woman just looked at me with this horrid look... yes, I taught my 18 month old to say that word! Please! His word for fork was the same. Ahhh... fun times. Thankfully my 18-month-old twins are late talkers and aren't anywhere close to swearing their way down the road :-)

My sister "Auntie Kitty" was called a rather humorous variation on her name because my daughter would replace the K sound with a T sound. Funny thing was, she is not at all gifted in that area, if you know what I mean.

HaHa, seems that lots of toddlers have trouble managing the 'tr' and replacing it with a 'f'. My son used to the same thing.

Also, if he wasn't sure what to call any particular object he'd say it was a 'fonk'. We still call something 'fonk' to this day when we aren't sure what something is called, or forget it's proper name.

Nope, sorry, DH and I have both listened to it quite loudly and neither of us can hear an "r" in there!!Problem with toddlers is that when you laugh, they perform - it'll be her favourite word now!!Jac

We also have a "Fruck", except our two-year-old misses the "r" half the time ;). We are quietly amused as well, but out in public we quickly say, "yes, there is a TRUCK" and ignore it. E seems to get very excited about trucks and likes to scream her special word every time she sees one. For some reason, all riding lawn mowers also fit in the truck category. Fun times :).

My son was worse. In addition to using "F" to start the words "truck" and "soccer", he'd take the last consonant and use it to start the words also. This made interesting words out of "sit" and "socks" .

Brooklyn is adorable! Okay, I think your post has now become a hot debate over whether there was an "r" or not! Once again, reading your reader's comments always proves to be an additional source of entertainment!

My kid sister had the opposite problem of strawberrymama... she actually DID...um, kinda echo things she'd heard Mom and Pop say. In fact, I think her first word was, umm...less than savory. In front of my grandmother.

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At least that's better than what my oldest son used to call my cat. The cat's name is Ashes and we used to call it Sweet Ashes Kitty. When it came out of my son's mouth, he failed to pronounce the "h" in Ashes and replaced the "k" in kitty with a "t". You can only imagine the reaction of friends and family when they would come over and hear him talk about his "special pet".

LOL!!!!!!! When my middle child was 18-ish months old or so, that's pretty much how he said truck as well, and he LOVED trucks. And he'd shout out truck everytime one would drive by. Only it definately didn't SOUND like truck!! One particular day, we had arrived to drop my daughter off at preschool and a big moving truck drove by and Jared was just beside himself with excitement shouting it over and over again, and other moms were giggling away about it... LOL

Haha, as many other commenters my daughter says the same thing..only shes almost 5 and sometimes it seems as if we can't blame it on the fact that she is little. She also says "Trunk" with an F. One day she told my husband that his Mom had a Fruck on her bed... these are the things that get us all through the day!

Its like a lil girl I used to babysit/clean house for her parents... She had a hard time with FROG & it came out like yout truck.. so. of course her dad thought it was funny & had her saying mother frogger (fr*cker) ALL the time. She is 4 now & it still slips out from time to time.